[Warning: Clip contains graphic NSFW language] NEW YORK (AP) — Though the Lifetime movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B drew criticism from fans upset with casting and the way it depicts Aaliyah’s life, executive producer Wendy Williams says she wouldn’t do anything differently if she had it to do again. Aaliyah fans took to Twitter, […]
It all started when Timbaland posted a photo on his Instagram account with the caption “Hope yall not watching this!!!!!!!!.” He was referring to Lifetime’s TV film “Aaliyah: Princess Of R&B,” but if you were watching social media Saturday, you already know this. Twitter and Instagram reacted in memes that Timb reposted, on his account, […]
Alexandra Shipp stopped by theGrio right before the premiere of “Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B” on Lifetime to talk about her portrayal and her critics. Many of those critics have been coming for Shipp’s casting on social media ever since she took the part after Zendaya dropped out of the project. The insults Shipp received […]
Basically, the Lifetime movie Aaliyah Princess of R&B, which aired on Saturday night, was an epic fail for Lifetime. Even casting director Twinkie Byrd tweeted that she’d have to “pick herself up, dust herself off and try all over again.” Black Twitter was brutal, creating the trending topics #LifetimeDisrespectsAaliyah and #LifetimeBeLike, complete with hilarious miscasting […]
“Baby Girl,” better known as Aaliyah, will forever be an R&B treasure. From the time she first debuted on the 90s scene with jeans that…
Wendy Williams, executive producer of Lifetime’s “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B,” didn’t care about Aaliyah‘s biopic’s casting and family disapproval controversies. She wanted the show to go on. She and the network cast Alexandra Shipp as the late singer who seems to embody Baby Girl’s essence in her own way. “Lifetime needed to tell this story correctly. […]
We are exactly one month away from the premiere of ‘Aaliyah: Princess of R&B‘ on Lifetime and we know you’re as excited about this as…
Da Brat chatted about the incomplete “Not Tonight” reunion at the 2014 Soul Train Awards and shade it’s host, Wendy Williams, during a visit to…
Lifetime’s Aaliyah: The Princess Of R&B doesn’t air until Saturday, November 15 at 8 p.m. but it’s already been through its fair share of controversy. Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the hit-making R&B singer who joined with Missy Elliott and Timbaland to create some of the 90’s most seductive, ahead-of-its-time hits, died in a plane crash on […]
Wendy Williams was added to the Aaliyah biopic as an executive producer over the summer. And ever since, she’s been promoting the heck out of the biopic. And she’s been justifying the portrayal of R. Kelly and Aaliyah‘s relationship and alleged secret marriage in the biopic as well. But no one should expect anything less […]
Lifetime won’t be skirting around the issue of Aaliyah’s relationship with R.Kelly in her upcoming biopic! When news of Lifetime’s Aaliyah movie broke, the R&B…
